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Next Meeting on Oct. 12th Presentor to be determined. Location is set for Rinker Hall room 240 on UF Campus, room is reserved from 6:15 to 9:00 PM. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker Hall is north of the west wall of the garage. The UF Parking rules state: "All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal (unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility). A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive, reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit. " More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.

September 14th Meeting Had discussion on all things Perl :) Location is set for Rinker Hall room 240 on UF Campus. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker Hall is north of the west wall of the garage. The UF Parking rules state: "All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal (unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility). A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive, reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit. " More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.

August 26th Meeting The date of the meeting has been changed to the 26th due to scheduling conflicts. Aaron Johnson will be giving a presentation covering Class::DBI::Plugin::HTML. Location is set for Rinker Hall room 238 on UF Campus. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker Hall is north of the west wall of the garage. The UF Parking rules state: "All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal (unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility). A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive, reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit. " More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.

Meeting followup, Feb. 7th Gabriel gave a great presentation on March 4th, comparing DBI and Class::DBI. I touched on some of my own Class::DBI scripts. You can see check out the outline notes here. The nifty edit-your-database-table-in-a-text-editor script which the group almost programmed together is here.

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Meeting followup, June 15th The last meeting on embperl and apache::asp went well. It looks like santa fe is a good place to meet on a regular basis. Too bad it's not available on the weekends.

Next meeting, May 4th The next meeting will be at the Borders bookstore, near the mall and I-75. The meeting will take place at 7pm on Sunday, May 4th and the topic will be the Glade/GTk/Gnome modules and if we have time, Perl6. Hope the see everyone there!

Next meeting, April 13th Ah, finally. Our next meeting will be Sunday April 13th at On the Border. Good food, Perl, and maragritas.

Post "meeting" More news about the next meeting soon. Topic: debugging with CGI::Carp and other modules. I put together a regex page, check it out

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